Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1891 — LIVE STOCK. [ARTICLE]

LIVE STOCK.

£oll lor sherf>. The quality of the soil is am element to be considered more or less with all domestic animals, Thus, for instance, black hogs are thought to be better adapted to low, rick, adtavial lands or prairies, while white hogs are better suited for light upland soils. The thin soil of the Western Reserve, says the Sheep Breeder, do for the manufacture of cheese, but for butter, the deep, strong prairies about Elgin, UL, are preferred. On the other hand, this butter soil makes coarse, inferior wool, while the more sterile lands of Northern Ohio, where it is so often only two or three inches down to hard-pan, yield a superior fleece. But tire purest - staple of all is grown on the well-drained hillsides of the Appalachian range, where the water is pure and the grass is sweet and tender. So also these hill and mountain ranges are best for small breeds of sheep, such as the Merino and the Southdown or the Welsh Mountain breed or the Cheviot The heavy Lincoln or the Cotswold or the Shropshire require, or at least do better, on lands which are more level and fertile. About tlie Hog. Know when the sow is to farrow. Keep large and small hogs separate. The foundation for pig growth should be grass. It is what a hog digests and assimilates that benefits. The best is always the cheapest in the end in breeding. The first hundred pounds put on tho pig is the cheapest. A boar on sow fed on corn will hardly prove a good breeder. Do not complain of cheap prices when you raise cheap hogs. A good ham. short nose and legs is a good type for a brood sow. The best way of feeding small pigs i 9 to give a small quantity frequently. Failing to clean out Properly often makes the lrog have a source of disease. When hogs cost, more than they will sell for, there is no good in raising them. Breed only from mature animals and never from an animal out of a show herd. When a hog is ready for the butcher It is a waste of time and feed to keep it any longer. If no more food is fed thau to supply

waste In the young animal the food Is thrown away. t Four pounds of corn or twelve quarts of skiinmilk will make one pound of growth in a hog. The hog that can be made to weigh 200 pounds in tho shortest time Is the most profitable. Pigs as a rule should be weaned when they are eight weeks old. Thej should be well fed, however.,